Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter Auction Archive with contact marks and surface

with contact marks and surface wear

white cardboard insert placed within the base and incorporating a recessed medal bed in navy blue felt

with nine silvered buttons (maker marked Maurice Bourdon Paris) positioned down the front of the tunic

(Bandspange)

later it became the Wehrmacht's Kavallerie-Regiment 5 in June 1936

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Ferdinand Hoffstätter Auction Archive with contact marks and surface(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of brass and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened brass core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, maker marked with LDO code L 19 for Ferdinand Hoffsttter,